Bei Dao, whose original name is Zhao Zhenkai, was born in Beijing in 1949. In 1978, he founded the literary magazine Jintian (lit.: Today) with friends in Beijing. Since 1987, he has been teaching in many universities in Europe, America, and Hong Kong. His work has been translated into 30 languages. He is the Honorary Doctorate at Brown University, Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Art at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Bei Dao was awarded the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award, the Swedish PEN Literature Prize, the American Guggenheim Prize, and the highest honor of Golden Wreath Prize of the Macedonian Struga International Poetry Festival. He is an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2009, Bei Dao founded the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong, currently the most influential international poetry festival in Asia. He founded the Hong Kong Poetry Festival Foundation in 2018.
北島，原名趙振開，1949年生於北京，1978年和朋友在北京創辦文學雜誌《今天》。自1987年起，在歐美及香港多所大學教書或任駐校作家，其作品被譯成30種文字，曾獲瑞典筆會文學獎、美國古根漢獎、馬其頓斯特魯加國際詩歌節最高榮譽金花環獎等，獲選美國藝術文學院終身榮譽院士。2009年創辦亞洲最具影響力的國際詩歌活動——香港國際詩歌之夜，2018年創辦香港詩歌節基金會。